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{{Infobox Event
 |name = Summon
 |cost = 5
 |set = Promo
 |type1 = Event
 |illustrator = Marco Morte
 |text = Gain an Action card costing up to {{Cost|4}}. Set it aside. If you did, then at the start of your next turn, play it. 
}}

'''Summon''' is a [[Promo|promotional]] [[Event]].  It lets the buyer gain a cheap [[Action]] card and play it immediately at the start of their next turn.
== FAQ ==
=== Official FAQ ===
* When you buy this, you gain an Action card costing up to {{Cost|4}} from the [[Supply]] and set it aside face up. 
* If you did set it aside, then at the start of your next turn, play that Action card. This doesn't use up your default Action for the turn. 
* In order to remember to play the card on your next turn, you may want to turn it sideways or diagonally, turning it right side up when you play it. 
* If you move the Action card after you gain it but before you set it aside (e.g. by putting it on top of your deck with {{Card|Watchtower}} from [[Prosperity|Dominion: Prosperity]]), then Summon will "[[Lose Track rule|lose track]]" of it and be unable to set it aside; in that case you will not play it at the start of your next turn.
* If you use Summon to gain a {{Card|Nomad Camp}} (from [[Hinterlands|Dominion: Hinterlands]]), Summon will know to find the Nomad Camp on your deck, so you will set it aside in that case (unless you have moved it elsewhere via another ability).
=== Other Rules clarifications ===
* The Summoned card is discarded during your Clean-up phase once its effects are resolved like a typical Action card, as it has been brought into play by the effect of Summon.
* If you are being {{Card|Possession|Possessed}}, and the player to your right tells you to Summon a card, they gain the card, which does not get set aside, nor played at the start of their turn, instead staying in their discard pile.
* If you Summon a {{Card|Hireling}}, you will draw a card when you play it, since it will still be the start of your turn.
* Summon will also fail to move a card if it moves away, and then moves back to the same place. For example, if you gain an {{Card|Experiment}}, exile it to {{Card|Gatekeeper}}, then gain the second {{Card|Experiment}} and discard the first {{Card|Experiment}} from [[Exile]], Summon will still fail to set aside the {{Card|Experiment}}, even though it's still in your discard pile.

== Strategy ==
There is no strategy article for Summon yet, as it has only recently been released! Plese share your ideas on the [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/ forum]!
===Synergies and Combos===
*{{Card|Smithy}}
*Opponent's {{Card|Swamp Hag}}

===Antisynergies===

== Versions ==
===English versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Release !! Date 
|-
| {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|o=1}} || {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|o=1|d=g}} || style="padding: 0px 15px;"| Gain an Action card costing up to {{Cost|4}}. Set it aside. If you do, then at the start of your next turn, play it. || Summon || November 2015
|-
| {{LandscapeVersionImage|Summon2016|Summon}} || {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|d=s}} || style="padding: 0px 15px;"| Gain an Action card costing up to {{Cost|4}}. Set it aside. If you did, then at the start of your next turn, play it. || Summon (2016 printing) || February 2017 
|}

===Other language versions===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Language !! Name !! Print !! Digital !! Text !! Date
|-
!French
| Convocation (lit. ''meeting'') || || || ||
|-
! rowspan="2" | German
| Einladung (lit. ''invitation'') || {{LandscapeVersionImage|SummonGerman|German language Summon}} ||  ||  Nimm eine Aktionskarte, die bis zu {{Cost|4}} kostet und lege sie zur Seite. Spiele sie zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges. || <p>Promo 2015</p><hr><p>omission:<br> "...If you do&hellip;"</p>
|-
| Einladung (lit. ''invitation'') || || {{LandscapeLangVersionImage|German|d=1}} ||  Nimm eine Aktionskarte, die bis zu {{Cost|4}} kostet. Lege sie zur Seite. Wenn du das tust: Spiele sie zu Beginn deines nächsten Zuges. || Sammler-Box 2019
|-
!Japanese 
| 召喚 (pron. ''shōkan'') || || || style="padding: 10px 10px;"| コスト{{Cost|4}}以下のアクションカード1枚を獲得する。それを脇に置く。脇に置いた場合、あなたの次のターンの開始時に、それを使用する。|| 
|-
!Russian 
| Зов (pron. ''zov'', lit. ''call'') || || || ||  
|}

== Trivia ==
[[Image:SummonArt.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Official card art.]]
[[Image:InvitationArt.jpg|thumb|right|First reveal image for Summon.]]
Summon was revealed in an advertisement for the German edition of [[Adventures]], which mentioned the Event's inclusion if you bought the expansion.  In any language, Summon was supposed to be sold in a package that includes an updated version of {{Event|Pathfinding}} where the art actually fills the entire space available for it on the card, but the updated Pathfinding was not ready by the time Summon was up for publication.  For a time it was included in [[Empires]] during that set's playtesting, but ultimately was removed and became a promotional card.  It was designed by playtester [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?action=profile;u=81 LastFootnote], who also wrote the official FAQ.
=== Art ===
{{Quote
|Text=The artist drew a sketch of a wizard in a forest shooting out a stream of butterflies. I said looks good. Then he did another sketch, the woman in that place, conjuring the weird thing from {{Card|Transmogrify}}. I said well it's fine but I also liked the first sketch. Then he did a polished version. I said well the weird thing is weird and mentioned the butterflies again. He replaced it with a butterfly.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13659.msg523565#msg523565 'Promo Event card in Germany']
}}
{{Quote
|Text=There was no special thing to commemorate with this promo, so we decided to pick a symbol that we could reuse if there were ever more promos. Something that said this was something special in some vague generic way. So: a flag.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg525707#msg525707 'Interview with Donald X.']
}}
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote
|Text=Altenburger, the German publisher, wanted a promo. I said, how about an Event? They said great. The Event actually promotes [[Adventures]], the set with Events. A first for our promos.

Playtester Matt Engel, aka LastFootnote, is a big designer of homemade cards. I said, do you want to make this promo? He said meh. A bad day. He did end up making it and trying to sell me on its virtues. It all worked out.

His initial premise was, "+1 Buy. Set aside the next Action card you buy this turn. At the start of your next turn, play it." I moved the buy into the functionality - "You may buy an Action card..." I initially was more interested in immediately playing the card, rather than next turn, but that turned out to be a dud.

Playtester [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1091 Stef Meijer] determined that "buy an action, play it next turn" was broken at {{Cost|2}}. It turns out you should just do it every turn. I fixed that by changing it to "Gain an Action card costing up to {{Cost|4}}." Or if you prefer, that direction meant the card didn't need a prohibitive price. It still conservatively cost {{Cost|6}} at first, but we weren't buying it all that much and Matt pushed for it to go down to {{Cost|5}}. It seemed fine at {{Cost|5}} and there it is. It's even better than the original on {{Cost|4}}'s, but you probably want some cards costing {{Cost|5}} at some point.

It has an unusual wording to deal with some of the weird things that can happen in Dominion. There are various ways for the card to vanish (e.g. {{Card|Watchtower}}), so to make sure you have the physical card around to tell you what to do next turn, it gets set aside and then makes sure it was.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=153.msg538787#msg538787 'The Secret History of the Dominion Promos']
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 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=153.msg538787#msg538787 'The Secret History of the Dominion Promos']
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-=== Retrospective ===
-{{Quote
-|Text=Lose track has to exist due to ways you can actually lose track of cards. It needs a straightforward rule for what it means to lose track and well there it is. Summon meanwhile had to check for the card, because otherwise it might play a card that was hidden away, which is bad multiple ways.
-Summon could have changed the gain-destination of the card to set-aside-land, rather than gaining it and setting it aside. That would be way more wordy and confusing, just to improve a small number of interactions.
-Summon could not exist. There, now are you happy?
-|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
-|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18742.msg760280#msg760280 summon + death cart vs. summon + nomad camp]
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-{{Quote
-|Text=I don't like gaining without gaining, that's creating more rules questions than Summon / Death Cart stuff.
-But, aha: "At the start of your next turn, +1 Action and gain to your hand an Action card costing up to {{Cost|4}}." {{Card|Villa}} and {{Card|Cobbler}} technology. Since we don't actually play it we don't need to worry about where it is, and since we delay the gain we don't need to set it aside. You do need to remember that you bought this. And of course it's dangerous with low piles.
-|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
-|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18742.msg760332#msg760332 summon + death cart vs. summon + nomad camp]
-}}
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